Two bombs blasted a Baghdad market on Monday, killing three people and wounding 12, police sources said. A car bomb and another bomb, apparently planted close to the street, struck the crowded area in the New Baghdad district in the mainly Shi'ite east of the capital. As well as the market, there was also a health clinic nearby.Officials have warned of a possible increase in attacks by Sunni militants like al Qaeda following the appointment of a new, national unity government on Saturday, after months of negotiation. At least 19 people were killed in three bomb attacks in the capital on Sunday.The Mujahideen Council, an al Qaeda-led militant group , said one of its fighters had carried out Sunday's suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people at a Baghdad restaurant, according to a statement posted on the Internet.... http://news.yahoo.com

A Kuwaiti court on Sunday cleared five Kuwaitis of charges of belonging to al Qaeda and ordered the former inmates of the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay prison freed immediately, judicial sources said.They said the five, who returned to the Gulf Arab state in November, were also cleared of charges of fighting a friendly state, a reference to the United States. "The Criminal Court ruled today that the five detainees who were held at Guantanamo are innocent and it ordered that they be set free immediately," one judicial source said. The prosecution plans to appeal the ruling, the sources added. Adel al-Zamel, Saad al-Azmi, Mohammad al-Daihani, Abdullah al-Ajmi and Abdulaziz al-Shimmari were among some 500 prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay since the 2001 U.S.-led war that ousted Afghanistan's Taliban rulers following the September 11 attacks on the United States. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1987396

A man opened fire Sunday morning at a church, fatally wounding four people before abducting his wife, whom he later shot to death at another location, authorities said. The suspect, Anthony Bell, 25, of Baton Rouge, was captured at an apartment complex near the church. The couple’s small child, who was abducted along with the wife, was not harmed. Police were called about the shooting around 10 a.m., around the time church services would normally be close to ending. “I’m assuming church was going on when the shooting occurred,” Armstrong said.The shooting took place at The Ministry of Jesus Christ church, a small church sharing space in an old warehouse with a guitar shop. It is in a non-residential area, surrounded by warehouses and various commercial businesses....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12901478/from/RSS/

Zimbabwe's main labour union movement has stepped up threats to lead a national strike for higher wages. The warning follows the failure of five-month talks with the government to protect salaries in a country where annual inflation is more than 1,000%. Meanwhile, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has retained a key parliamentary seat in the capital after a by-election on Saturday. Tension has been high around the first anniversary of the slum clearances. Hundreds of thousands of dwellings in shanty towns were torched and bulldozed in the government campaign - in which the UN says some 700,000 people lost either their homes or their jobs. Police banned rallies to mark last year's controversial programme, fearing violence. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5002394.stm

If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force. Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies "xenophobic," Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.In the United States, only two posts — the presidency and vice presidency — are reserved for the native born.In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal, naturalized citizens.Foreign-born Mexicans can't hold seats in either house of the congress. They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. ...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_limiting_immigrants

The search for the first wild bird carrying a deadly flu virus to North America is under way on a lonely stretch of coastal salt marsh on the outskirts of Alaska's largest city. Biologists are ankle-deep in mud and yellowed marsh grass, trying to net and test two types of shorebirds. Both are known to visit regions where flocks have caught the dangerous H5N1 virus that has spread across Asia and even into Europe and Africa. "Birds up here are going to be interacting with birds that are going to be moving back in the United States. This is kind of Grand Central Station," said Paul Slota of the U.S. Geological Survey, who will be overseeing the testing of samples back at the USGS wildlife lab in Madison, Wis. The focus now is on long-billed dowitchers and pectoral sandpipers, just two of the 28 bird species that come to the great avian mixing zone that is Alaska. If bird flu can be carried long-distance by wild birds, experts hope to see it first here, before ...http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1987298